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APPARATUS F011 'TREATINGOLOTHS AND. OTHER GOODS TO RENnEmH-EM MOTH 0RVERMIN PROOF 0R REPELLBNT. No. 248,306. Patented Oct. 18,1881.

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WILLIA H. GOODDAY AND LOUIS F. ennnmna, on NEW roan, N. Y.

APPARATUS FOR TREATING CLOTHS AND OTHER GOODS T0 RENDER THEM MOTH 0RVERMIN PROOF 0R REPELLENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,306, dated October18, 1881.

Application filed August 30, 1881.

To all whom 'Lt may concern Be it known that we, W ILLIAM H. GOODDAY andLOUIS F. GEMEINER, both of the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in an Apparatus for TreatingCloths and other Goods to Render them Moth or Vermin Proof or Repellent,of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists of a series of concentric cylinders havingperforated sides and closed ends, into one of which ends a steampipe isintroduced for conducting steam into the innermost of the cylindricalchambers, so as to allow the said steam to pass outwardly through theperforations of the sides of the said inner cylinder, and thence throughthe arnular chamber surrounding the said inner cylinder, and between itand the intermediate cylinder, and the steam will then enter an annularchamber between the outer shell and the inclosed chambers, from whichsaid annular chamber the steam will be expelled outwardly through theperforated sides of the outer cylinder and saturate the cloth or othergoods that are to be treated, the said goods to be treated having beenwrapped or wound around the outer cylinder, so as to be immediatelyaccessibleto the steam. The steam, in passing through the first annularchamber surrounding the inner steam-chamber, will be charged with somesubtle pungent material that will prove destructive to any moth orsimilar insect life.

The invention will be readily understood by reference to theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figurelis a longitudinal sectionalelevation of the improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectionalelevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of it.

The machine or apparatus consists of three concentric cylinders, A, B,and O, the ends of which terminate in nearly the same vertical plane,and the said three concentric cylinders form two concentric annularchambers,D and E.

The front end, a, may be formed of one single plate, which willconstitute the ends of all of the cylinders; or each cylinder may havean end independent of the others. At the other end of the cylindersthere will be an outside end plate, G, which will form the end (Nomodel.)

for the two outer cylinders, B and O, and an inside end, which will formthe end for the inner cylinder. The end plate, G, will be securedsteam-tightly to the cylinder 0 by any suitable means, and there will betwo end trun nions, H and I, secured,respectively, to the end plates,wand G, in the prolongation of the aX- ial line of thecylinders,so thatthese trunnions may be set in suitable rests, in order that thecylinders may be rotated on thesetrunnions or gudgeons for the purposeof winding the cloth or other goods to be treated upon or around theouter cylinder or unwinding the goods therefrom. The trunnion or gudgeonI will be hollow, so as to admit steam to the inner cylinder, A, withwhich this hollow journal is to be connected. The outer end ofthejonrnal l is to be made so that it may be coupled onto a steam-pipefor filling these chambers with steam when required.

All of the cylinders A, B, and G will haveperforated sides, so as toallow the steam with which the inner chamber is charged to percolateoutward through the sides of each of the said chambers in succession.

The inner annular chamber, D, is to be filled with some suitable pungentmoth or vermin repelling material, which may be taken up and carriedalong with the steam, and discharged thereby into the goods surroundingthe outer 8o cylinder. For this purpose we prefer to use quassia-wood,sawdust, or chips, though chips or fragments ofeitherealamus-root,Eugenia, or coloquintida may answerthe purpose. If either of thesematerials are filled into the chamber D, the steam from the interiorchamber, A, will pass outwardly through the perforated sides of the saidinner cylinder and through the medicating-chamber D, where the steamwill take up a sufficient quantity of the medicating 9c material toimpregnate or saturate the goods wound about the outer cylinder to suchan extent as to destroy or repel any moths or other similar vermin.

In order to be certain that none of the perforations of the outercylinder are stopped or clogged by the medicating material, therebycausing irregularities or untreated spots in the goods, we interposebetween the outer cylinder and the medicating-ohamber an annular cham-10c her, E, which is simply a steam-chambenwhere the medicated steamwill become thoroughly mixed and homogeneous. From this steamchamber Ethe medicated steam will pass out through the perforations of the outerchamber, and thence thoroughly permeate and treat the surrounding goods,so as to thoroughly repel moths or other similar vermin therefrom.

It is desirable to place the cylinders in a horizontal position when thegoods are to be Wound around them; but-it will be better to place thesaid cylinders in a vertical position when the steam is turned on, so asto allow the steam equal exit facilities on all sides of the cylinder 0,and thereby treat all parts of the surrounding goods perfectly andequally. The cylinder

